As thousands of people work to recover from tornadoes, there's a bright spot after a young girl was saved during the storm.

"I just want to take this time to say to Ms. Ruth's family, 'Thank you.' I mean, you can never say thank you enough. Thank you. Thank you so much. Your mother gave the ultimate sacrifice," mother Coysheena Mitchell said.

Ashtyn was waiting to be picked up at a day care when the tornado ripped a path of destruction across Louisville. Her parents said they searched for more than two hours before finding her.

"(Bennett) was holding her, and they found her over a tree. A tree had fell over, and the branch was on top of her, and the fireman came and got her," Willie Mitchell said. "I went in there, and I (saw) my baby. I said, 'That's my baby right there,' and she looked up at me and said, 'Hey daddy,' like that, and it did something to me."